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BOOKS ABOUT CITIES & URBAN PLANNING
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Bangalore, in south central India, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.
Bangalore is nicknamed the “Garden City” and is noted as the Silicon Valley of India because of its position as the nation's leading IT exporter.
• Cities of India
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Bangui, the capital and largest city in the Central African Republic, was founded in 1889 and grew around the French colonial military post on the Ubangi river.
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Banjul, the capital of The Gambia is on St Mary's Island (Banjul Island), where the Gambia River enters the Atlantic Ocean.
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Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain (after Madrid), is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea.
The city was likely founded by Hannibal's father, Hamilcar Barca, in the 3rd century BC. Another legend has the city founded by the Roman god Hercules.
Notable people associated with Barcelona: Carmen Amaya, Francisco Ferrer, Joan Miro, Antoni Gaudi, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Pablo Casals, Xavier Cugat, Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballe.
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Basel, Switzerland, located on the Rhine River where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, is an important cultural and industrial center.
Ancient Celtic settlement in the area predate the Roman Empire settlements, and the name Basel, documented in 374 AD, is related to Latin and Greek words meaning kingship.
Notable people associated with Basel are Jacob Burckhardt, John Calvin, Erasmus, Karl Jaspers, Carl Jung, mathematicians Leonhard Euler and the Bernoulli family, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius, Peter Birkhäuser.
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Bath, England was first established as a spa with the Latin name, Aquae Sulis (“the waters of Sulis”) by the Romans in AD 43, at the site of hot springs.
During the Georgian era (1714-1830), Bath had a major expansion evidenced by Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone.
Notable people associated with Bath include Robert Adam, Jane Austen, Roger Bannister, William Thomas Beckford, Fanny Burney, Charles Dickens, Thomas Gainsborough, William Herschel & Caroline Herschel, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Robert Malthus, William Pitt, Mary Godwin Shelley & Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Tobias Smollett, John Wood the Younger.
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